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  •  Article from Science Advances:
        Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and      functioning of terrestrial ecosystems
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaaz1834

  • Soil Food Web (Dr. Elaine Ingham) 

  • Article on: Perenniel Polyculture Fertility Belts: (Temperate Climates)


  • Article on soil biology: The Zoo Beneath our Feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world

  • Article National Geographic: “The Dirt on Dirt: 5 Things You Should Know About Soil” 

  • Video: It´s time we stop treating soil like dirt! 

  • Movie: The Status of the World’s Soil Resources

  • Article on Soil Sealing (in cities- European context)

  • Soil Sealing:

  • In-depth Report | Soil Sealing March 2012


  • Campaign 4 per 1000 

  • Interactive Map Organic Land Use in Europe Country by Country

  • Video Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture Farm Austria.

  • Public Sanitation using Hot Composting - Humanure

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 


  • Living soil film: 


  • The secret language of trees - Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard Explains micorhizhome, networks and sugars in the system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4m9SefyRjg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2Qmc4hnGLHsoT6ekVVhmM7mPVYtdfp2WOi66Wyy_baaOkp4OdNdCVIARc



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